Question : Select the correct indirect form of the given sentence.
Priya assured me, "I can stay in tonight."
Option 1: Priya told me that she could stay in this night.
Option 2: Priya told me that she could stay in that night.
Option 3: Priya told me that she could stay in tonight.
Option 4: Priya told me that she can stay in that night.
Correct Answer: Priya told me that she could stay in that night.
Solution : The second option is the correct choice.
Indirect speech, also known as reported speech or indirect discourse, is a way of reporting what someone else has said without quoting their exact words.
The steps of conversion are as follows:
- The reporting verb "assured" is changed to "told" in the indirect speech.
- The modal verb "can" is changed to its past form, "could".
- The first-person pronoun "I" is changed to the third-person pronoun "she".
- The connector "that" is used to introduce the reported clause.
- "Tonight" is changed to "that night".
Therefore, the correct sentence would be: "Priya told me that she could stay in that night."
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